Vietnam travel companies have launched discount tours with tour costs down by 40-50%. This is the largest discount campaign in many years, which will last until May 2009.Cherry blossom in Da Lat Vietnam

The discount campaign is being offered thanks to Vietnam Airlines’ special promotional program for six domestic air routes from Hanoi for some big travel companies in the North. This program will run from February 20 to May 30.

Vietnam tour fee, the tourism promotion programme has been kicked off, but tours remain unattractive to travellers as tour fee reductions have been minimal.Vietnam tour fee reductions cannot attract travellers

Travel firms have admitted that considerable tour fee reductions have been applied mostly to outbound tours or domestic tours with air travel because airlines have agreed to cooperate with travel firms to lower airfares.

Ho Chi Minh City-based Hoa Binh Travel Firm said that outbound tours have seen the sharpest tour fee reductions. Travellers going to China, for example, now enjoy the fee reduction of $100 per person ($638), while those going to Thailand, the reduction of $30 ($298), and to Malaysia, $40 ($358).

The “Take a kayak tour in Hau River” tour, offered by Victoria Can Tho Hotel, which has been enjoyed for a long time by American and Japanese tourists, is now attracting local tourists at a price US$25 per person.

kayak tour in Hau River

We departed from the wharf of Victoria Can Tho Hotel on Hau River’s banks in doubled-seat kayaks, a boat which originated 8,000 years ago along the Siberian coast line for use by Eskimos.